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3d ago

Echochambers

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Anywhere you can choose what communities you do and do not interract with is going to be an echo chamber. Lemmy and all social media are echo chambers. We aren't special.
Don't take for granted the spaces that are not. I am a firm believer that a well-guided opinion must be bathed in scrutiny — which you are never going to get in an echo chamber.
As human beings we have a tendency to get defensive at the first hint of a challenge. I would urge others to be conscious of this and give yourselves space to consider these challenges to your ideas.
- The big difference is that commercial platforms are opaquely curated by corporate interests who decide what people see, what content is allowed, and so on.
  
  That doesn't really change much. Lemmy is worse of an echo chamber of anything.
- We aren’t special.
  You should dial this statement way up. The population of Lemmy is definitely not a representative demographic. Nor is Reddit's.

We all live in echo chambers, it's not just Reddit. Lack of understanding and empathy is one of the main issues of the modern era imo
- the lack of understanding and empathy are natural side effects of our atomization and it's been fostered by our capitalist system to make us less willing to join together in our fight in the up vs down class struggle.
- When in history has it not been a problem?

The irony

It's the front page of the Internet, not society wtf

That's some nice artwork

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